This article pertains to the staff members behind of Sonic Mania.
Developed by
- Christian Whitehead
- Headcannon
- PagodaWest Games
In Association with Sega
Sonic Mania Development Team
Lead Developer
Project Manager
Business Dev
Programming
Lead Programmer
Programmer
Design
Lead Designer
Designer
- Brad Flick
- Taryn Costello
- Michael Balm
Art
Art Director
Artist
Sound
Composer
Mastering
Sound Design
Announcer
Audio Engineer
Sega
VP of Product Development and Creative Services
Director of Creative Services
Director of Product Development
- Austin Keys
Producer
Tantalus Media
CEO
- Tom Crago
Producer
- Joss Ellis
Programming
Switch Lead
- David Lally
Programmer
- Sean O'Sullivan
- Derek Johnson
QA
QA Lead
- David Doe
- Sheylla Tupia
Original Music
Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Oil Ocean Zone
Composed by
Animation Intro
Director, Lead Animator
Music
- "Friends" By Hyper Potions
Animation Supervisor
Animation Producer
Animation Assistance
BG Illustration
Compositing, Motion Graphics
- Brady Hartel
- Jon Kim
Special Thanks
- Elizabeth Ramirez
- Lana Kasl and Baby Tenly
- Rachel Steinberg
- John Hardin
- Allie Doyon
- Michael Cisneros
- Jasmin Hernandez
- Alex "The Kidd" Solverson
- Mai Kiyotaki
- Edith Yang
- Kitty Mach
- Peter Bowman
- Misty Noor
- Ben Westhoven
- Sergio Montealegre
- Aaron Webber
- Sam Mullen
- Westin
Sega of America Inc
CEO and COO
- Tasuyuki Miyazaki
Executive VP
- Yusuke Suai
SVP
- Ivo Gerscovich
Production
VP of Product Development and Creative Services
Director of Product Development
- Austin Keys
Producer
- Lola Shiraishi
- Miki Takahashi
- Terri Watanabe
Marketing
Marketing Manager
- Ari Sapriel
Marketing Associate
- Nathan Shabazi
PR Manager
- Edith Yang
Social Media Manager
- Aaron Webber
Social Media Coordinator
- Sergio Montealegre
Licensing
Licensing Director
- Anoulay Tsai
Senior Manager
- Sylvia Barraza
PD Manager
- Sandra Jo
Associate Manager
- Alex "The Kidd" Solverson
Specialist
- Michael Cisneros
PD Coordinator
- Mai Kiyotaki
Creative Services
Director of Creative Services
- Kazuyuki Hoshino
Senior Graphic Designer
- Jimmy Lenoir
Graphic Designer
- Petia Koutzarova
Multimedia Production
Producer
- Marlene Sharp
Production Coordinator
- Jasmin Hernandez
- Ayumi Tanioka
Legal and Business Affairs
Director of Legal and Business
- Cindy Lin
Legal and Business Counsel
- Wendy Wang
Corporate
SVP of Publishing
- Naoto Hiraoka
VP of Sales and Marketing
- Tim Pivnicny
Director of Business Planning
- Kenya Numata
Sales Administration Manager
- Nathan Harris
Sales Administrator
- Connie Chinn
Financial Analyst
- Hajime Sugino
Atlus USA Inc
Marketing
- Robyn Mukai Koshi
Marketing Associate
- Sara Chan
Creative Designers
- Ayami Haruno
- Amy Shimoshige
Web Designer
- James Kaneshiro
Events and Purchasing Manager
- Kathy Park
Production
VP of Production
- Bill Alexander
Quality Assurance
QA Manager
- Carl Chen
Asst QA Manager
- Scott Williams
QA Lead
- Elwood Cruz
QA Compliance Specialist
- Rob Stone
QA Testers
- Tony Resendes
- Adam Borno
- Ian Kelly
- Logan Sandefur
- Steven Kawafuchi
IT
Senior Systems Admin
- Bryan Kuhl
IT Guy Tyrone
- Brian "Bquick" Quach
Sega Europe Ltd
COO
- Jurgen Post
CFO
- John Ward
SVP
- Martin Servante
Product Development
Head of Studio Localisation and ESD
- Charlie Harris
Producer
- Teppei Otsuka
Head of Program Office
- Mark le Breton
Submission Manager
- Mike Veness
Process and TCM Manager
- Ben Howell
Senior SDET
- Mindaugas Batutis
Junior SDET
- Gordon McKendrick
Head of QA and Localisation
- Ghulam Khan
Production Manager
- Adrian Daly
Project Lead
- Owen Hewitt
Resource Manager
- Ben Jackson
Training and Recruitment Supervisor
- Julie Metior
Localisation Manager
- Marta Lois González
Localisation Project Supervisor
- Antonella Marras
Lead Translators
- Luis J Paredes
- Nicole Thomer
- Jesús Álvarez
Translators
- Chiara Canu
- Gwladys Gaye
- Giulia Checchi
- Giuseppe Rosa
- Sebastián Salguero
- Martin Schmalz
- Alexia Trensch
- Sarah Breton
- Enrico Sette
Quality Assurance
Functionality QA Lead
- Stephen Edwards
Functionality QA Senior Tester
- Jasper Engels
Functionality QA Testers
- Dumitru Garofil
- Dwayne Husbands
- Errol Burke
- Luke Nelson
- Michael Pelling
- Prathan Lothongkum
- Simone Decardi-Nelson
- John Wright
- Zack Garvey
- Amandeep Gosal
Localisation QA Supervisor
- Ruggero Varisco
Localisation QA Team Lead
- Alan Desole
Localisation QA
- Jérémié Maréchau
- Antonio Matrone
- Irina Hoff
- Jose Torres
Compliance
Compliance QA Team Leads
- David Jenkins
- Gerson de Sousa
Compliance QA Senior Tester
- Renato Insalaco
Compliance QA Testers
- Marta Baquero
- Michael Blanco
Mastering
Mastering and Equipment Manager
- Francesco Fraulo
Equipment and Shift Coordinator
- Tony Langan
Mastering and Build Engineer
- Shaun Young
Equipment and Mastering Coordinator
- Danny Florey
Assistant Mastering Technician
- Ashar Dubois
Administration and Finance Coordinator
- Chris Bien
Development Service Administrator
- Chris Geiles
Customer Service
Customer Service Manager
- John White
Marketing PR and Comms
Marketing Director
- Anna Downing
Senior Product Manager
- Ben Walker
- Tim Breach
- Lewis Herbert
Brand Manager
- Derek Seklecki
Marketing Manager
- Reena Sood
Product Manager
- James Dyer
Head of PR
- Peter Oliver
PR Manager
- Sarah Head
PR Assistant
- Kerry Barrett
Senior Marketing Manager
- Alfonso Cubias
PR Manager
- Erica Denning
Creative Services
Head of Creative Services
- Jeff Webber
Traffic Manager
- Samra Halli
Creative Team Manager
- Noud Tempelaere
Senior Creative Designer
- Ranj Vekaria
Creative Artworker
- James Kent
Video Suite Manager
- Elliot Kidner
Video Suite Editor
- Chris Bailey
Video Suite Assistant
- Una Marzorati
Searchlight
SVP, Commercial Publishing
- John Clark
Content Director
- Dean Trotman
Head of Brand
- Rowan Tafler
Senior Content Manager
- Bobby Wertheim
Commercial Publishing
VP of Digital Business
- James Schall
Business Development Director
- Peter Chan
- Stephane Bonazza
Technical Director
- Steve Sharp
EMEA Sales Director
- Alison Gould
Head of EMEA Sales
- Simon Inch
EMEA Sales Account Manager
- Stephanie Olbe
Senior Business Manager
- Anh Luong
Junior Digital Account Manager
- Charlotte Rouget-Murphy
Digital Distribution Assistant
- Megan Garett
Senior Business Analyst
- Jarvis Crofts
Business Analysts
- Filippo Mingione
- Pedro Gonzales
Product Launch Manager
- James Gourlay
Product Launch Assistant
- Clinton Allman
Marketing Assistant
- Zamir Bandali
Business Planning
SVP, Business Planning
- Katsuhiro Ichinose
Director of Business Analyst
- Jean-Yves Lapasset
Publishing Project Manager
- Ryoko Nakao
Senior Business Planning Analyst
- Yoshiko Mukaiyama
Business Planning Co-ordinator
- Takashi Nakaya
Business Analyst
- Matthew Hodgson
Junior Business Analyst
- Samuel Riches
European Research Manager
- Lucy Peaple
European Research Executive
- Douglas Owusu
European Research Assistant
- Daniel Vincent
Operations
Head of Operations
- Natalie Cooke
- Linda Kershaw
Operations Co-ordinator
- Jacob Nixon
Brand Licensing
Director of EU Brand Licensing
- Jason Rice
Senior Licensing Manager
- Toby Rayfield
Retail Licensing Manager
- Kay Ferneyhough
Product Development Manager
- Samuel Byard
Licensing Co-ordinator
- Jason Goonery
Junior Graphic Designer
- Paul Dunn
Legal
Director of Legal and Business Affairs
- Nicky Ormrod
Head of Licensing
- Nivine Emeran
Legal Counsels
- Daniel Finegold
- Ilan Pdahtzur
Legal Executive
- Lola Okuboyejo
Finance
Finance Director
- Deepak Sharma
Finance Controller
- Michael Riley
Group Finance Manager
- Lenia Peros
Finance Manager
- Paul Foley
Credit Control Manager
- Pauline McDonagh
Management Accountant
- Tac Hau
Accounts Payable Supervisor
- Bradley Matthews
Accounts Co-ordinator
- Sunil Kalotia
Oracle Applications Support
- Luke Walker
Oracle Finance Applications Support
- Richard Welch
Online
Head of Design and Development
- Nick McKenzie
Lead Interactive Designer
- Sean Gallagher
Junior Online Producer
- Scott Bone
Senior Web Designer
- Marta Camilo
IT
Director of Technology
- Stuart Wright
Head of Live Operations and Development
- Francis Hart
Senior Systems Infrastructure Analyst
- Jide Agbalaya
Network and Security Manager
- Kashif Iqbal
Network and Security Technician
- Clinton Littlejohn
Network and Security
- Mohamed Bensakrane
Linux Live Operations Engineer
- Borislav Velchev
Project Manager
- Paul Leclerq
Online Service Developer
- Navin Algoo
Web Developer
- Rob Howard
Data Architect
- Felix Baker
Junior Data Developer
- Jagdeep Gosal
IT Support Manager
- Luis de Mendonca
Junior IT Support Technician
- Bryan Mencias
- Stacy Lovage
Live Operations Monitoring Lead
- Peter Hamilton
Live Operations Monitoring Engineer
- Ricky Hetherington
- Fernando Azevedo
- Rikki Laffar
- Daniel Dixon
- Haren Patel
HR
Director of HR
- Ben Harrison
HR Manager
- Eithne Metchalfe-Bliss
Payroll and Benefits Manager
- Shilpa Pandya
Talent Executive
- Ashleigh Meale
HR Assistant
- Roseanna Jefferson
Corporate
Facilities Manager
- Aidan Bass
Corporate Office Manager
- Lindsay Cox
Receptionist
- Alexia Hudson
Sega Games Co Ltd
Localization Support
- Tatsuyuki Miyazaki
- Tatsuya Shikata
- Shintaro Tanioka
- Takuma Hatori
- Emi Yamane
- Takuya Kishimoto
- Kohei Kondo
Marketing
- Toyohisa Hiwatari
- Satoshi Imai
- Sho Nanmoku
Executive Marketing Supervisor
- Hiroyuki Miyazaki
Promotion
- Takayoshi Ohuchi
- Koji Uemura
- Natsuki Sato
- Risa Araki
- Ruiko Miyamoto
- Ikuo Ishizaka
First Party Managers
- Tetsou Sasaki
- Chiaki Furuya
PR
- Mamoru Kodama
- Yuko Yasuda
- Teruyuki Kaida
- Rei Kawasaki
- Akane Inoue
Asia Business Dept
- Go Saito
- Shintaro Tanioka
- Takako Takusagawa
- Quan Yang
- Takeyuki Iso
- Kenji Sonobe
- Hiroshi Seno
- Takuji Konuma
- Kenta Ueno
- Yosuke Okunari
- Takafumi Osaka
- Yui Funakoshi
- Ryuta Sakamoto
Package and Manual Production
- Yoshihiro Sakuta
- Hiroki Osawa
- Colin Restall
- Makoto Nishino
- Takuya Hamamoto
Product Test
- Takashi Shoji
- Akira Nishikawa
- Osamu Sato
- Kenzo Kadowaki
- Takayuki Miyazaki
- Atsushi Furukawa
- Kenji Takahashi
- Chiharu Yoshida
Quality Assurance
- Tomoki Kaji
- Kazuhiko Morii
- Yasuyuki Hattori
- Yuji Nakamura
- Shunya Shimizu
Web Design
- Yuichi Kikuchi
Chef Producer
- Osamu Ohashi
Executive Producer
- Haruki Satomi
- Kenji Matsubara
- Toshihiro Nagoshi
@SEGA 2017